2020-02-04 Weekly News - Episode 39
Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/iv6uLhkiYVg
Hosts:
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - CommandBox Lead for Ortus Solutions
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News and Events
Adobe Roadshows - Happy Hours
These events are going to be different than our usual breakfast meetings. We are holding an evening happy hour type reception which will allow us to have individual and group conversations in a more relaxed environment. This gives more time for networking between everyone that goes. Adobe is hoping to have the CF 2020 demos available to play around with if the location allows for it.
Sacramento 2/11
San Francisco 2/17
San Jose 2/18
Los Angeles 2/19
Orange County 2/20
All networking mixers from 6-8pm. People can email [email protected] to rsvp.
Fusion Reactor Live Stream coming up
February 11th at 7PM UTC (11AM PST)
We are running our first live demo and Q&A session on the FusionReactor YouTube channel, covering what’s new in FusionReactor 8.3.0, which is releasing very soon.
The demo should take around 30 minutes, at which point we will have time to answer all your questions.
https://www.fusion-reactor.com/news/whats-new-in-fusionreactor-8-3-0-live-stream-support/
Lucee released 5.3.4
Regarding that last bit, today we’re announcing a final release of Lucee 5.3.4 (5.3.4.77). As I explained in December, we decided to extend this version to a second release candidate phase. And, while there were no regressions in 5.3.4.73 per se, we did struggle, during the combined RC2 and January-December sprint, with a collection of challenging bugs related to low-level problems like classloading. Thus, in order to make 5.3.4 as helpful to as large a user base as possible, we made the decision to include a patch in 5.3.4.77 that eliminates those problems for nearly everyone. This is, of course, in addition to the large batch of tickets addressed in 5.3.4 overall.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-4-77-final/6562
CBValidate v2.0.0 and v2.1.0 released
In 2.0.0 and 2.1.0 we have a combined:
9 Features
4 Improvements
2 Compat & Bugs
## 2.1.0
3 Features
* `feature` : Added `constraintProfiles` to allow you to define which fields to validate according to defined profiles: https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbvalidation/issues/37
* `feature` : Updated `RequiredUnless` and `RequiredIf` to use struct literal notation instead of the weird parsing we did.
* `feature` : Added the `Unique` validator thanks to @elpete!
* `improvement` : Added `null` support for the `RequiredIf,RequiredUnless` validator values
## 2.0.0
6 Features
4 Improvements
2 Compat & Bugs
### Features
* No more manual discovery of validators, automated registration and lookup process, cleaned lots of code on this one!
* New Validator: `Accepted` - The field under validation must be yes, on, 1, or true. This is useful for validating "Terms of Service" acceptance.
* New Validator: `Alpha` - Only allows alphabetic characters
* New Validator: `RequiredUnless` with validation data as a struct literal `{ anotherField:value, ... }` - The field under validation must be present and not empty unless the `anotherfield` field is equal to the passed `value`.
* New Validator: `RequiredIf` with validation data as a struct literal `{ anotherField:value, ... }` - The field under validation must be present and not empty if the `anotherfield` field is equal to the passed `value`.
* Accelerated validation by removing type checks. ACF chokes on interface checks
### Improvements
* Consistency on all validators to ignore null or empty values except the `Required` validator
* Formatting consistencies
* Improve error messages to describe better validation
* Get away from `evaluate()` instead use `invoke()`
### Compat & Bugs
* `Bugs` : Fixed lots of wrong type exceptions
* `Compat` : Remove ACF11 support
https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbvalidation
Michael Born announces new CF Project - CFSnippets
I've always wanted a nice cheatsheet website for CFML. Something where you could grab an H2 datasource config without having to google or search for it in an old code repo. I thought if you had all datasource configs together in one place, it would be easier for me (and other CFML devs) when building new apps.
So I built a searchable code snippets site. The idea was to provide CFML examples to beginner and intermediate developers as well as cheatsheets for libraries like ColdBox or LogBox. Someday there may even be a VSCode plugin to search and inject snippets for faster development.
https://michaelborn.me/entry/announcing-cfsnippets-com
Ortus Solution Webinar last Friday - cbInertia
Friday, January 31st, 2020 CST 11:00 A.M. CST (GMT -6:00)
Presented by Eric Peterson
Recording: https://vimeo.com/389260637
Webinars Page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars
Gavin’s Live Coding Challenge
So Gavin likes this live streaming thing, so he started a daily challenge for himself, to do a daily kata on CodeWars, and stream it live. So follow him on Twitter for the live stream notifications, or watch after the fact on his YouTube. The first few were Javascript, but since CFML has been accepted now, he will mix it up and do some javascript and some CFML.
Live on Twitter - https://twitter.com/gpickin
Replays on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC55cdDHnLI4HkSgoTxWJ-KA/
More CF Summit Videos Released
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